Terenti[us] : cu[m] directorio vocabuloru[m] sententiaru[m] artis comice glosa i[n]terlineali come[n]tarijs Donato, Guidone, Ascensio.
Terence.
Curtius, Joannes,of Ebersbach,active 1500.
Donatus, Aelius.
Jouenneaux, Guy,-1507.
Badius, Josse,1462-1535.
Petrarca, Francesco,1304-1374.
Locher, Jacob,1471-1528.
Bebel, Heinrich,1472-1518.
Grüninger, Johann,-1532?,printer.
De Valdonas, Johannes Baptiste,former owner.StEdNL
[Strasbourg] : Per Ioannem Grüninger. Ad illam forma[m] vt intuenti iocundior, atq[ue] intellectu facilior esset Per Ioannem Curtum ex Eberspach redactum.,
anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni. 1499 Tertio ydus Februarij. [11 February 1499]
Edited by Johannes Curtius.
Includes the commentaries of Aelius Donatus, Guy Jouenneaux, and Jodocus Badius.
Colophon (leaf F6r): Impressum in imperiali ac libera vrbe Argentina per Ioannem Grüninger. Ad illam forma[m] vt intuenti iocundior, atq[ue] intellectu facilior esset Per Ioannem Curtum ex Eberspach redactum. Anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni. 1499 Tertio ydus Februarij.
Signatures: a⁶ b-c⁸ d-z⁶ A-F⁶.
Numbers [CXXXI]-[CXXXIX] omitted; several other errors in foliation.
Some copies have a variant colophon with the incorrect reading: Ioannen Grüninger.
Xylographic title page, with inserted letterpress subtitle, incorporating full-page ill. of a theater interior.
The woodcut ill. include 7 full-page cuts (1 at the beginning of each play); and smaller cuts at the beginning of each scene, each composed of combinations of 2, 3, or 5 blocks.
Text surrounded by 72 lines of commentary.
Initial spaces, with guide-letters.
Therentii vita excerpta de dictis. D.F. Petrarcha: leaves F5v-F6r.
Includes verses by Jacob Locher and Heinrich Bebel.
Includes indexes.
Rubricated. Initials supplied in red or blue. Initial on recto of leaf I and verso of leaf CLXXX in blue and embellished in red pen.
Hain-Copinger
Proctor
Goff
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel,
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Ink inscription at foot of title page: Joannes Baptistae De Valdonas. With Advocates Library ex libris dated 1798. Purchase was ordered by the curators on 11 June 1798 (Faculty Record 120).
18th-century calf with gilt tooled spine with red leather gilt stamped label.
France Strasbourg.